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I am a nomad by nature who loves to roam around the world. I prefer to learn everyday and thanks to my profession that offers me a chance to learn about different places, people, industry and businesses.

Full Name

Shankar Kumar

Display Name

speakingcontent

Job Title

Subject Matter Expert

Company

GMR Web Team

Type of Work

In-house

Location

Tustin, CA

Favorite Thing About SEO

The dynamic nature of this industry that keeps us in alert mode always to learn something with every passing day

Blog Comments & Posts

Thanks for sharing such a wonderful post over cross domain tracking in Google Analytics. This post clearly gives the best solution to some long due queries that were frequent among beginners in Analytics. I'm going to share this blog among my peers.

This is simply hilarious. If YouMoz link was flagged in inappropriate or inorganic by Spam bots then Google seriously needs to look into their spam link check mechanism, or if it was manually done by Google's search quality experts, then they must be sleeping during the audit process. :D

A great piece of advice on future proof SEO. Thanks a lot for your efforts in putting down this post. Post Panda, I was a strong believer of focusing on "brand building" rather than "link building", this post made my focus stronger. :)

Right from its days of Inception, I found reddit close to my browsing habits. It always catered like food for thought, for me at least. There are some segments like technology and social which are my favorite here and which offers a lot of latest happenings from the industry.

However, I never used marketing features of reddit. This basic guide inspired me to use Reddit for promotion. It will surely be a great help for me.

You really pin pointed the real pain of people working on SEO projects. The changes in search industry is really significant that led to this transformation in the strategic moves for marketing and branding for search.

However, I believe its too late for them who are still following old practices. The best time to change the way of working on digital marketing assignment was in the mid of 2011 or the start of 2012. However, it's never too late to start good work.

In my opinion, today's world has more option to market their brand or business, so things are pretty easy they just need to change the benchmarks of success.

Thanks a lot for compiling this list of tips for Google. I personally like your suggestions for posts formatting and interactive posts. I've started using your suggestions right away and hopeful to see some benefits in coming future.

Thanks for sharing your views on using paid promotion to get optimum benefit of organic SEO activities. Here I've a query, sometimes we create special landing pages to promote a specific service/ product already listed on our website. Should we keep those landing pages open to index by Google bots.

In my opinion, its wrong as our own service page (non landing) will compete with a better designed and targeted page page focusing same keywords thus making it tough for Search Engine to figure out which page to rank on organic search results page.